Photos: Vogue's Beauty Guide for Spring 2014

Fashion’s new obsession with all things golden and gleaming didn’t stop at the neck. Shimmering 24K pigments were brushed onto eyelids (Gucci), painted over brows (Dior), and even threaded along lashes and hairlines (Dries Van Noten). The metallic mania didn’t stop there: At Jason Wu and Marios Schwab, ponytails were fastened with gilded clips; at Ohne Titel and Topshop, even fingernails were finished with a stroke of liquid gold.Photographed by Kevin Tachman

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Photographed by Kevin Tachman

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Photographed by Kevin Tachman

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Photographed by Taylor Jewell

Strict and subversive, elegant and refined, wispy and finger-raked—spring’s take on the ponytail was anything but basic.Photographed by Victoria Will

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Photographed by Shawn Brackbill

Photographed by Victoria Will

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Photographed by Kevin Tachman

Photo: Gianni Pucci/Indigitalimages.com

Quirky cool doses of color provided a striking counterpart to the stripped-back makeup minimalism spotted elsewhere on the runways. From Prada’s airbrushed “graffiti” eyes to Chanel’s punkish lids, backstage artists took a painterly approach to lashlines and even brows; on lips, it all came down to a single, saturated dose of color—in shades that ranged from “chemical peach” (Fendi) and techno orange (Rag & Bone) to powdery, prettiest lilac (Prabal Gurung).Photographed by Kevin Tachman